The resources listed below all allow sharing for not-for-profit purposes without fees. Please refer to each site for specific conditions.

I will try to keep the list up to date. If you have or find a depository of AV resources for Japanese language instruction, please let me know.

Table of contents

Japanese clip art for instructional use

Japanese clip art for general use

Generic clip art for general use

Japanese phtographs for instructional use

Japanese video clips for instructional use

• CAJLS Material archive Clip art collection
  A clip art collection done by Center for Applied Japanese Language Studies. Categories include food, sports, and weather. (Carl Falsgraf)
  http://babel.uoregon.edu/CAJLS/Materials/clipart_list.html
  
  
• Clip Art Collection for FL instruction (ライセンスフリー語学教育用クリップアート)
  A clip art collection designed for language instruction. Categories include verbs, adjectives, buildings and places, food and drinks, people and animals, sports, things and events, time, vehicle. Royalty free for educational use. (Kazumi Hatasa, Purdue University)
  http://www.cla.purdue.edu/fll/JapanProj/FLClipart/
  
  
• Free Downloadable Visual Aids (絵教材）
  A growing collection of clip art designed by a professional artist for Japanese language instruction. Categories include activities, story and seasonal scenes. (Naoshi Shindo & NihongoWeb)
  http://www.nihongoweb.com/Siryoo/VisualAids/index.html
  
  
• Image Database for Instructors of Japanese
  A clip art collection designed for Japanese language instruction. Categories include Kana Chart, signs, greetings and short phrases, prohibitions, permissions, weather, emotions. Royalty free for educational use. (Masato Kikuchi, Georgia Technology of Institute)
  http://www.iac.gatech.edu/modlangs/Resources/Japanese/CONJUGATE/index.html
  
  
• Picture cards for Japanese verbs （日本語動詞の絵カード）
  A collection of clip art of actions designed for Japanese language instruction. (Isao Mizumachi, Hiroshima University)
  http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/mizumat/pictcards_e.html
  
  
• Picture Dictionary
  A collection of clip art designed for Japanese language instruction. Categories include actions, food, and various kinds of objects. (Saeko Komori, Chubu University)
  http://langue.hyper.chubu.ac.jp/komori/jbat.html
  
  
• Thumb Nail: Illustrative Sentence Search System
  Large amount of line drawings for Japanese language instruction. The database is searchable. Each illustration comes with an example sentence and key words. (CASTEL/J　日本語教育システム研究会)
  http://castelj.soken.ac.jp/groups/thumb_nail/
  

• Kaleidoscope Free Clip Art（万華鏡・フリークリップアート、素材集集）
  A collection of traditional Japanese images and designs including plants and flowers, Kabuto, Tsuba, Matoi, lantern, Sushi, Kumadori, etc. Free for personal use.
  http://www.media.ne.jp/web/kaleido/index-e2.html
  
  
• Ushikai to Aikon no Heya（牛飼いとアイコンの部屋）
  A collection of icons and graphical images including animated graphics. People, animals, signs, night, etc.
  http://www.ushikai.com
  
  

• Clip Art Review - free graphics, photos, pictures
  A list of general clip art collections. Some are free while many others are not, but most of them have free samplers. Categories include icons & buttons, backgrounds, bullets, animations, lines, bars, photos.
  http://www.webplaces.com/html/clipart.htm
  
  
• Clip Art Review: Sound Clips
  A list of sound clip collections such as animal sounds, human sounds, sound effects.
  http://www.webplaces.com/html/sounds.htm
  

  * You will find a large number of general clip art resources if you conduct a search on WWW.
  

　

• A Day with Kentaro
  This is a project by the Japan Forum. Photographs taken at different times in the daily life of a Japanese boy.
  http://www.tjf.or.jp/eng/de/deindex.htm
  
  
• AV Resource Database for Japanese Language Instruction
  This is a reimplementation of Royalty-free Photo Gallery for Japanese Language Instruction. It now contains over 700 pictures in a database and has a search function to retrieve necessary pictures using keywords in English or Japanese. (Kazumi Hatasa, Purdue University)
  http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/jphotos
  
  
• Copyright-free Audio-Visual Resource Center（オーディオ・ビジュアル・リソース・センター）
  This collection contains over 400 color slides for instructional use. Categories include food, stores, houses, customs, cars, signs, entertainment, etc. (Ken Ujie, Washington & Lee University)
  http://www.wlu.edu/~kujie/slide.html
  
  
• 国立国語研究所日本語教育研修センターのコレクション
  A collection of photos taken for Japanese language instruction. (Yoshiaki Yanagisawa, The National Language Research Institute)
  http://202.245.103.41/kenshu/Sozai/Default.htm
  
  
• Paula Henning's Japanese Photo Album
  A collection of photos taken by Ms. Paula Henning during her trip to Japan. Very nice pictures. (Paula Henning, Sunbury Secondary College, Victoria, Australia)
  http://jltav.org.au/photoindex.htm
  
  
• Picture Gallery of Japan (日本の写真館）
  A collection of photos taken in Japan. Beautiful pictures of sceneries in Japan. (Yasuhiro Omoto, Nihongoweb)
  http://www.viewedo.com/users/nihongoweb/
  
  

Search engine of image files by Google
This is a general image database. It picks up image files based on their file names. If you have your own homepage and know the names of graphic files (e.g. your photograph file), it will probably find it. Thus, there is no fixed collection of pictures.
http://images.google.com

• Japanese Conversation Practice Database indexed by Situation and Function (場面・機能別日本語会話練習データベース)
  A collection of digitized video clips containing short conversations. Video clips can be searched by situation, place, action, expression, and prop. (International Student Center, University of Tsukuba)
  (This resource will be released on DVD.)
  

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Created by Kazumi Hatasa

Last update: November 25, 2001